Backers must be found urgently for a stalled nuclear venture before its staff
leave and make a sale impossible, the coalition has warned.

Charles Hendry, the Energy Minister, said that there was a “window of a few
months” to sell the £15 billion Horizon project, which involves the
construction of up to six nuclear reactors in Anglesey and Gloucestershire.
Intended to produce enough power for a city the size of London, they would
create thousands of construction jobs in the process.

The venture’s former backers, the German groups E.ON and RWE, withdrew at the
end of March, plunging the Government’s